Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal
- Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal
"Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal" is an essay about computer programming written by Ed Post, Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, Oregon USA. It was published as a letter to the editor in Datamation, volume 29 number 7, July 1983. The title is a parody of the bestselling tongue-in-cheek book on stereotypes about masculinity "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche".
The article was widely circulated on Usenet in its day and was well-known in the computer software industry. [ cite article
url = http://www.th-soft.com/zzJargon/R.htm#Real_Programmer
title = Real Programmer
work = The New Hacker's Dictionary
date = July 271993
author = Eric S. Raymond, editor
accessdate = 2008-03-28 ] Many subsequent documents pay homage or mimic its subject. [ cite journal
url = http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/mags/so/&toc=comp/mags/so/1995/06/s6toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/52.469755
author = Ian Gorton
title = Real Programmers Do Use Delphi
journal = IEEE Software
volume = 12
issue = 6
pages = 8–12
publisher = IEEE Computer Society
date = November 1995
accessdate = 2008-03-28
doi = 10.1109/52.469755 ] [ cite web
url = http://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/afs-paper.ps
title = The Heroic Hacker: Legends of the Computer Age
author = Erik Brunvand
date = October 151996
format = PostScript
pages = 4
accessdate = 2008-03-28 ] [ cite web
url = http://www.suslik.org/Humour/Computer/Langs/real_prog2.html
title = More About Real Programmers
accessdate = 2008-03-28 ]
ee also
*Real Programmer
*The Story of Mel
References
External links
* [http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html A copy of the essay can be found here]
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